¹⁶ So I urge you to imitate me.

11 ¹ And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

¹⁷ Dear brothers and sisters, pattern your lives after mine, and learn from those who follow our example.

⁹ Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.

⁶ So you received the message with joy from the Holy Spirit in spite of the severe suffering it brought you. In this way, you imitated both us and the Lord.

⁹ We certainly had the right to ask you to feed us, but we wanted to give you an example to follow.